Date Signed: 2008-11-01
Type: Documents & Publications, SADC Technical & Thematic Reports
Themes: Social & Human Development, Poverty Eradication & Policy Dialogue
The impact of poverty, food insecurity, and disease on Southern Africa is most evident in its effects on orphans, vulnerable children, and youth. Although policies throughout the region in support of vulnerable young people are strong, SADC has identified a need for a strategic framework to support these policies, setting out actions for change that complement national and community efforts for development. For this reason, SADC initiated its Strategic Framework and Programme of Action for Orphans, Vulnerable Children and Youth in 2008.
Date Signed: 2008-04-01
Type: Documents & Publications, SADC Technical & Thematic Reports
Themes: Poverty Eradication & Policy Dialogue
The Regional Poverty Reduction Framework seeks to elaborate and translate SADC’s Regional Indicative Strategic Development Plan priority intervention area on poverty eradication into an implementation framework. This has the effect of fine-tuning the regional agenda for poverty eradication and provides a bridge to align national poverty reduction strategies to regional interventions.
Read MoreDate Signed: 2008-04-20
Type: Documents & Publications, Declarations
Issues: Environment & Sustainable Development
Themes: Social & Human Development, Orphans, Vulnerable Children & Youth, Poverty Eradication & Policy Dialogue
With poverty eradication in Southern Africa as a chief objective, SADC addresses the current state of development and its areas of priority through the Declaration on Poverty Eradication and Sustainable Development, signed on 20th April 2008.
Read MoreDate Signed: 2013-03-20
Type: SADC Technical & Thematic Reports, Brochures
Themes: Poverty Eradication & Policy Dialogue